SUMMARY:

• Over 25 years of experience in IT industry with 20 years of experience in Project Management leading comprehensive ERP/SAP implementations, upgrades, conversions, and integration testing
• Completed 3 full SAP implementations, 3 full SAP upgrades and several related projects including Workday and PeopleSoft ERP solutions.
• Experienced as an independent consultant and contractor in all kinds of industries including global manufacturing clients
• An organized professional with immensely strong leadership capabilities with excellent project management and communication skills

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Mobile, AL

Sr SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Establish business processes for HR and SAP application to support build activity
• Build and fully test SAP applications systems to support build
• Support go live activities planning, with a multi release strategy

Confidential, Juno Beach, FL

PMO - Sr SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Assisted business with business requirements related to a Utilities International planning tool enhancement.
• Worked through budget requirements for both vendor and internal resources to create a package for executive review.
• Worked with an established team to bring their project to conclusion, working through the holiday schedule to deliver mid-January 2018.
• Worked with SAP support to move Finance enhancements through the landscape.

Confidential, Austin, TX

PMO - Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Partnered with IBM to establish new methodology and procedures to implement Platform as a Service, Software as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service; for both Cloud based and on premise deployments.
• Worked with Enterprise Readiness team to introduce new Workday ERP system to the campus community for Human Capital Management, Payroll and Finance. Internal teams for Communication, Stakeholder Management, Organizational Alignment and . iSchool Evaluation - worked with the School of Information on campus as they evaluate and measure the effectiveness of the new Workday system vs vnhj current legacy systems.
• Established Microsoft Project to allow delivery and time tracking per offering for Technical Architecture and Enterprise Readiness teams.

Confidential, St Petersburg, FL

SAP Solutions Architecture - Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Partnered with the business to introduce Master Data Management and standardization within Jabil global.
• Participated in vendor selection and budget preparation and initial rollout of SAP’s MDG tool.
• Led team of IBM resources to introduce SAP MDG tool to build rules and workflows around new processes.
• Worked with multiple vendors to provide Jabil with industry solutions to existing challenges within Jabil’s Finance, Vendor and Customer domains.
• Facilitated meetings with business participants to ensure global coverage of solution.

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Finance project to enhance the 2014 Budget process in SAP ECC 6.0 and to replace old BPC Budget Process
• Worked with existing support teams to identified AS IS/TO BE architecture in SAP
• Created project plan utilizing Agile methodology to allow faster implementation as the budget cycle was approaching
• Established processes to move through sprints efficiently with existing Production processes.
• Business effort to replace an outdated SAP B2B portal for Marketing, uitilizing current technology
• Conducted workshops with business and vendors to establish requirements and create prototypes to aid in decision making process.
• Worked extensively with external vendor to provide final solution
• Executed project to complete upgrade/replacement of new portal/web access for Marketing group utilizing NetWeaver, and Java with connectivity to ECC 6.0, CRM, BI and PI
• Established and monitored budget for over 2 million dollars to complete portal
• Designed and administered test approach for delivery of custom application to business,
• Planned and executed cutover plan and go live activities to support customers and internal users.

Confidential, St Louis, MO

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• CRM Sales, CRM Marketing, Asset Management, PLM, BPC, BI Restructure, ECM, Time Management, Travel Management and two additional country rollouts in Africa and India.
• Led teams through Gap analysis and blueprint, provided input to SOW, provided resource requrements and initial project plans to complete.
• Established standardized templates for blueprint, functional specsification, technical specifications and configuration documentation

Confidential, San Jose, CA

SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked in on the Confidential Project for Confidential, reporting on implementation and conversion prgress and on a weekly basis. Updated budget, represented Confidential in project status to upper management .
• Led small team to client site in Plano TX, to evaluate upgrade path from 4.6C to ECC6.0 with and without unicode conversion. Worked with on site and off shore resources to complete recommendaton on architecture during project and final landscape. Recommendations on resources required and timeline to completion.

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led the conversion of PeopleSoft ERP system into an existing ECC 6.0 SAP system. Resources ranged from 12 to 25 consultants with additonal existing internal support.
• Responsible for $5.5 million budget tracking and reporting to upper management.
• Utilizing ASAP methodology our taskes included over 50 conversion programs, 80 interfaces, various forms and enhancements as we brought two independent companies into one system.
• Established and executed cutover plan for go live.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Resources ranged from 30 to 45 consultants on a $11 million dollar, 3 phase project, with additonal existing internal and off shore support.
• Utilizing ASAP methodology and Best Practices to guide multiple groups through blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, Go Live and Post Production Support.
• Led conversion teams and business to create Go Live plan
• Coached client on go live execution and post go live support

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Working with corporate IT to implement integrated 4PL Logistics provider capabilities
• Completing the documentation of As-Is and To-Be system specifications
• Establishing formal sign-off process for functional design specifications
• Establishing Go-Live profile for pilot site and 5 additional sites to be used for North America rollout

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

SAP Implementation - Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked with existing implementation team of 25 resources to bring 2 new warehouses online with current SAP production systems.
• Established daily status meetings to enhance communications within the extended team
• Established weekly development reviews to improve delivery time of development
• Established system freeze and change management process to control scope
• Established Go Live cutover plan and executed two dry runs to establish timing.
• Delivered project on time and within budget

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

SAP Upgrade - Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked with project upgrade sponsor to justify move from current 4.5B SAP system to new SAP Enterprise 4.7
• Responsible for executive ROI package preparation
• Directed internal and off shore teams to create detailed plans for upgrade
• Completed initial budget assessment, including hardware, software, and both internal and external resources required

Confidential, Monroe, LA

Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Directed several teams accountable for driving multiple full lifecycle telecommunications billing project implementations, conversions and upgrades
• Directed team to standardized processes to migrate new releases and conversions to production environment, increasing production stability 50%
• Initiated operational processes/procedures governing code movement through 19 development environments and 3 software levels, reducing code transfer processing time by 75%
• Established Go Live methodology and timing runs, directed cutover activity and validation.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Organized existing support team to re-implement a failed SAP go-live.
• Managed group of 10 SAP Consultants supporting the implementation of 4.6C including SD, MM, WM, FI, and CO modules
• Executed GAP analysis of legacy system and initial SAP implementation
• Introduced weekly SAP classes for SD and WM, reducing data entry errors by 80%

Confidential, Brewster, NY

SAP Upgrade - Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project to upgrade existing SAP systems to current support level and introduce new hardware to support business.
• Led 20-member team in the upgrade of SAP 3.0F to 4.6C with FI, CO, SD, MM, PP, WM, and QM modules. Delivered project 3 weeks early and $80 thousand under budget
• Established Go Live cutover plan and managed execution into Production